The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.
I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance.
The experiment of poetry, as far as I am concerned, happens when the poem carries you beyond where you could have reasonably expected to go.
Poetry is but another form of inquiry into the nature of phenomena, using with its own unique procedures and tools.
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
If you do an experiment and it gives you what you did not expect, it is a discovery.
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
In experimental philosophy, we are to look upon propositions inferred by general induction from phenomena as accurately or very nearly true, notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses that may be imagined, till such time as other phenomena occur by which they may either be made more accurate or liable to exceptions.
The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.
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